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3051 Ironbound Road 
Williamsburg, VA 23185
Phone: (757)220-6830 
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The Williamsburg Unitarian Universalists History
Chronology
1992

June 14:  Reverend Reynolds leads his last WUU worship service.

September:   The Reverend Eileen Karpeles serves as our interim minister until June 1993. 

1993

January:  The Williamsburg UUs acquire the Ironbound Partner’s shares and become owners of the UU House and land.

June:  The worship committee holds our first service on the Ironbound property, seated outdoors under the old oak tree.  We speak about our dreams of what our church building will mean to each of us. 

September:  The Reverend Mark Edmiston-Lange begins his two-year stay as our interim minister.  

November 7:  We initiate a capital campaign to finance the building of our church.

 September:  WUUs celebrate Miracle Sunday; we add $50,000 to our pledges to meet our expenses for Home 95.

 

 

 

 

October 23:  After the worship service, the congregation walks through the woods to our property and celebrates breaking ground for a building.

1995
The TJ District nominates the Williamsburg UUs for the O. Eugene Pickett Award given annually to the congregation that has made an outstanding contribution to the growth of Unitarian Universalism.

May 21:  The Reverend Dr. Randolph W. B. Becker is called as the Williamsburg UUs first settled minister

 

Summer:  Through the generosity of Jamie Fahs, a charter WUU member, the UU House is remodeled and renamed the Sophia Lyon Fahs Religious Education House in honor of Jamie’s mother-in-law, the foremost religious educator of the 20th century in the Unitarian Universalists tradition.

October 29:  WUUs walked down Ironbound Road from our temporary home at Clara Byrd Baker School to celebrate the completion of our church building.

   

1987-1990
1992-1995
1996-1999
2000-2005





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